[CentOS] C6 New Kernel 2.6.32-504.12.2 PPTP fail

Wed Mar 25 21:07:03 UTC 2015
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Ken Smith <kens at kensnet.org> wrote:
> Akemi Yagi wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Ken Smith <kens at kensnet.org> wrote:

>>> Just updated to kernel 2.6.32-504.12.2.el6.x86_64 and pptp vpn (invoked
>>> via
>>> Gnome Network Manager) fails to connect.
>>>
>>> Boot up the previous 2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64 and pptp all good.

>>> Don't see it reported elsewhere.
>>
>> Not sure if this helps but can you try 'modprobe nf_conntrack_pptp' if
>> that module has not been loaded?
>>
>> Akemi
>
> Result, using your suggestion allowed pptp to connect. Removing the module
> (rmmod nf_conntrack_pptp) afterwards returned to failure status.
>
> Dependency issue??

Your result confirms that this is a known issue reported for Fedora:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1187328

You may want to clone the bug for RHEL-6 so that it gets fixed upstream (RH).

Akemi